they came right out and said kind of ideologies that he they espouse, even imposing a tax on questions which have not been done in the middle east in hundreds of years, these things are rejected, he said. he talked about reaching out to the backbone of assad's remaining support. he said join us, did not fight us, and we are not fighting you. an open letter was written to the syrian christian community. i know it does have a big impact. this is a vision of respect for the dignity of all syrians, a vision of tolerance, coexistence. i think the vast majority assyrians really want to believe a debt of that vision. the extremist we talked about are a minority but at the violence goes on, those extremist voices are getting louder. >> with the remaining time i have left, thank you for the humanitarian work you're doing. obviously it is very important. if you could expand, you mentioned the efforts we are making to make sure those being held there recognizable america has played in providing that help. if you could just detail that a little bit i would appreciate it. >> we are examining on the